1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

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Job 42:7, Job 2:11, Job 42:7, Job 2:11, Job 22:1

2Should a wise man answer with arguments of wind, Or fill his bosom with the east wind?

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Job 6:26, Job 6:26, Hosea 12:1, Job 8:2, Hosea 12:1

3Should he argue with speech that helpeth him not, And with words which do not profit him?

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Colossians 4:6, Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15, Job 26:1, Job 26:3

4Behold, thou makest the fear of God a vain thing, And discouragest prayer before him.

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Romans 3:31, Romans 3:31, Psalms 36:1, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 119:126

5Yea, thy own mouth proclaimeth thy iniquity, Though thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 9:5, Psalms 50:19, Psalms 50:20, James 3:5

6Thy own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Thy own lips testify against thee.

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Luke 19:22, Luke 19:22, Matthew 12:37, Matthew 12:37, Job 9:20

7Art thou the first man that was born? Wast thou formed before the hills?

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Psalms 90:2, Psalms 90:2, Job 38:4, Job 38:41, Proverbs 8:22

8Hast thou listened in the council of God, And drawn all wisdom to thyself?

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Romans 11:34, Romans 11:34, Jeremiah 23:18, Jeremiah 23:18, Job 12:2

9What dost thou know, that we know not also? What dost thou understand, that is a secret to us?

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Job 13:2, Job 13:2, 2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 11:21

10With us are the aged and hoary-headed; Much older than thy father.

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Job 32:6, Job 32:7, Job 32:6, Job 32:7, Deuteronomy 32:7

11Dost thou despise the consolations of God, And words so full of kindness to thee?

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2 Corinthians 7:6, Job 11:13, Job 11:19, Job 5:8, Job 5:26

12Why hath thy passion taken possession of thee? And why this winking of thine eyes?

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Proverbs 6:13, Job 17:2, James 1:14, James 1:15, Mark 7:21

13For against God hast thou turned thy spirit, And uttered such words from thy mouth.

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Job 15:25, Job 15:27, James 3:2, James 3:6, Job 15:25

14What is man, that he should be pure, And he that is born of woman, that he should be innocent?

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Ecclesiastes 7:20, Job 14:4, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Job 14:4, Proverbs 20:9

15Behold, He putteth no trust in his ministering spirits, And the heavens are not pure in his sight;

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Job 4:18, Job 25:5, Job 4:18, Job 25:5, Job 5:1

16Much less, abominable and polluted man, Who drinketh iniquity as water.

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Job 34:7, Proverbs 19:28, Job 34:7, Proverbs 19:28, Romans 3:9

17Hear me, and I will show thee, And that which I have seen will I declare;

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Job 34:2, Job 5:27, Job 13:5, Job 13:6, Job 36:2

18Which the wise men have told, And not kept concealed, as received from their fathers;

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Job 8:8, Job 8:8, Isaiah 38:19, Job 15:10, Psalms 71:18

19To whom alone the land was given, And among whom not a stranger wandered.

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Joel 3:17, Joel 3:17, Genesis 10:32, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10:25

20"All his days the wicked man is in pain; Yea, all the years, that are laid up for the oppressor.

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Job 27:13, James 5:1, James 5:6, Job 27:13, James 5:1

21A fearful sound is in his ears; In peace the destroyer cometh upon him.

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Job 18:11, Job 18:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Leviticus 26:36

22He hath no hope that he shall escape from darkness; He is set apart for the sword.

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Job 20:24, Job 20:25, Job 9:16, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:22

23He wandereth about, seeking bread; He knoweth that a day of darkness is at hand.

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Psalms 109:10, Psalms 59:15, Psalms 109:10, Psalms 59:15, Job 18:12

24Distress and anguish fill him with dread; They prevail against him like a king ready for the battle.

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Proverbs 6:11, Isaiah 13:3, Job 6:2, Job 6:4, Proverbs 24:34

25Because he stretched forth his hand against God, And bade defiance to the Almighty,

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Psalms 52:7, Job 36:9, Daniel 5:23, Psalms 73:9, Malachi 3:13

26And ran against him with outstretched neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

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2 Chronicles 32:13, 2 Chronicles 32:17, Genesis 49:8, Job 16:12, Psalms 18:40

27Because he covered his face with fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins,

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Psalms 17:10, Psalms 17:10, Isaiah 6:10, Psalms 73:7, Jeremiah 5:28

28And dwelt in desolated cities, In houses which no man inhabiteth, That are ready to become heaps.

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Job 3:14, Job 3:14, Micah 7:18, Jeremiah 51:37, Job 18:15

29He shall not be rich; his substance shall not endure, And his possessions shall not be extended upon the earth.

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Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Job 27:16, Job 27:17, James 1:11

30He shall not escape from darkness, And the flame shall dry up his branches; Yea, by the breath of His mouth shall he be taken away.

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Job 4:9, Job 4:9, Job 20:26, Job 15:22, Job 20:26

31"Let not man trust in vanity! he will be deceived; For vanity shall be his recompense.

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Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:4, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 62:10, Job 12:16

32He shall come to his end before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

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Ecclesiastes 7:17, Ecclesiastes 7:17, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 55:23, Job 22:16

33He shall shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, And shed his blossoms like the olive-tree.

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Revelation 6:13, Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:40, Isaiah 33:9, Revelation 6:13

34The house of the unrighteous shall be famished, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

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Job 8:13, Job 8:13, Job 8:22, Job 27:8, Micah 7:2

35They conceive mischief, and bring forth misery, And their breast deviseth deceit."

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Psalms 7:14, Psalms 7:14, Hosea 10:13, Hosea 10:13, Isaiah 59:4